# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tareque-masud
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:20.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tareque-masud"
name: "Tareque Masud"
slug: "tareque-masud"
description: "Tareque Masud was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist. He first found success with the films Muktir Gaan (1995) and Matir Moina (2002), for which he won three international awards, including the International Critics' FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight at 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film became Bangladesh's first film to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film."
tagline: "Bangladeshi film director (1956–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tareque_Masud_Syl.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-12-06"
deathDate: "2011-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.84
  momentum:             2.045454545454545
  historical:           7.480202666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1181881/"
    handle:    "nm1181881"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://tarequemasud.org"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "تاريكو ماسود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6"
    title: "তারেক মাসুদ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tareque_Masud"
    title: "Tareque Masud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tareque_Masud"
    title: "Tareque Masud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tareque_Masud"
    title: "Tareque Masud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tareque_Masud"
    title: "Tareque Masud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BC_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A6"
    title: "तारिक़ मसूद"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983547"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/567638"
    title: "Tareque Masud"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump